issues regarding health data’s protection at the work place

Abstract

in occupational medicine, the French law created a medical record for health dataat the workplace (art. L4624-1 code du travail : Dossier médical de santé au travail– DMST). as there’s a medical record in every hospital, there’s now a medical recordat the workplace. as we know, health datas are personal and sensitive data, and it’simportant to assure a strong protection so as to keep safe the privacy of the person.assuming that the datas are about health at the workplace, the protection must bestronger, as the employer cannot have access to this particular medical record. But,the past few years, icT’s have increase and it became easier to collect, archive andcommunicate personal and medical datas. French law early realized that a strongand strict legal organization should be introduced. This communication will focus onthat legal protection. We will see that different levels of protection exist, to keep safethe confidentiality of health datas in the workplace